Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism : art, 'sensibility' and war in the 1960s / Gavin Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkinson, Gavin, author.

Series:

Transnational theatre histories.

Transnational Surrealism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008--Criticism and interpretation.

Rauschenberg, Robert.

Surrealism.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealist art, while the artist himself displayed some hostility towards Surrealism. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period 1959-69. In the face of Rauschenberg s avowals of his own "literalism" and insistence on his art as "facts," this book gathers the generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative, connotative dimension of the oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, extrapolating new readings from key works on that basis. By viewing Rauschenberg's art against the expansion of the cultural influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the Second World War and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism shows how poetic inference of the artist's work was turned towards political interpretation. In these ways, Rauschenberg's art is newly perceived through Surrealism here, while Surrealism is newly understood against the art criticism and history of the 1960s".

Contents:

Introduction

1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism

2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts

3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 1961

4. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front unique

5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Proc s

6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge

7. Choisiste: Things in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s

8. Surrealist in Irony: Jos Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely)

Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5013-5828-6

1-5013-5827-8

1-5013-5826-X

OCLC:

1295021652